The Co
News
VOL. XXI, No. 17
BRYN MAWR AND WAYNE, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935
Copyright BRYN MAWK
(Ol.l.KCK NKU'S. 1935
PRICE 10 CENTS
Students Suggest
Competitive Sport
And Social Games
Questionnaire Answers Reveal
Golf and Squash Favored
As Additions
TENNIS CONGESTION
SHOULD BE ALTERED
The sports writers on the College
News were more than pleased with the
response shown to the questionnaire
which was circulated last week-end.
We have long planned to conduct a
survey of college sentiment on athlet-
ics, and we chose this occasion as a
parting fling before our departure into
the shades of grateful retirement. The
intention of the questions was to get a
general expression of undergraduate
sentiment about the purpose of,an ath-
letic program and to attempt to find
out what other sports students would
like to have provided if it could lie ar-
ranged. We did not undertake the
survey in a spirit of criticism, but sim-
ply as a matter of interest, and the
results should be interpreted in this
light.
There are those who feel that inter-
est in athletics is at a fairly low ebb
at present and who look to the "good
old days" when everyone came out and
cheered for their class teams and great
throngs attended varsity contests �
shades of the poor forlorn gatherings
we have occasionally seen observing
some of our recent contests. Perhaps
athletics were overemphasized then,
but they are if anything underempha-
sized now. We can speak with a fairf
measure of authority for we received
149 answers, which represents rough-
ly 40 per cent, of the college.
Students in general expect to get ex-
ercise, enjoyment, health, and training
in sports which will be useful after
college from the program in athletics.
Several people took occasion to have
their fling at required athletics, and
six said that they thought they should
be eliminated. One of them felt quit
strongly that college studenta#were
"past the age of co-operation" Tind
therefore organized sports were a
waste of time.
times when the authorities think that
we are past that age, but as a general
rule we like to think that most of us
are still willing to work with others.
Continued on Pace Five
Vocational Tea
� Dr. Mildred Loring Sylvester,
Executive Officer and' Examin-
ing Psychologist of The Psycho-
logical Laboratory and Clinic of
the University of Pennsylvania,
will speak on Clinical Psychol-
ogy in the Common Room, Good-
hart Hall, Monday afternoon,
March the twenty-fifth, at half-
past four. Tea will be served at
four o'clock. Anyone who is in-
terested is cordially invited to
the meeting.
Drive Is Publicized
in New York Papers
Bryn Mawr's Million Dollar Drive
is on its way to winning a million dol-
lars' worth of advertising as well. On
both March 17 and 18, the New York
Times and the New York Herald-Trib-
une printed accounts of our money-
raising activities and displayed pic-
tures of our committees.
In the Sunday Herald Tribune, a.
photograph of the New York mem-
bers of the Undergraduate Drive Com-
mittee held a prominent place. The
Sunday Times included, besides this
same picture, a detailed report of
campus projects for winning funds.
Not even our sacrifice of desserts was
forgotten in the long list of enter-
prises intended to contribute towards
the undergraduate quota of $20,000.
On Monday, the alumnae program
received its share of attention. The
Times and the Herald Tribune both
announced the fete to be held at
Rockefeller Center in New York City
on April 16. This celebration in honor
of Bryn Mawr's 50th anniversary will
be only a pai-t of a series occurring
on that same day in different cities
throughout the country�in Chicago,
San Francisco, St. Louis, and Port-
land, Oregon.
In the fete sponsored by the New
York alumnae, the feature will be the
opening of a Garden bf Nations on an
outdoor terrace of the RCA Building-
Bridge games, a buffet luncheon, a
fashion show and reception will all be
Doubtless there are*TK�'n^ on a* '^e same time in different
parts of the ^uilding. As guests of
honor there will be present many ce-
lebrities of the stage and screen, and
to entertain them the New York alum-
nae will be hostesses.
Fortune Scrutinizes Bryn Mawr to Find
Us Free, Nonchalant, And Well-Dressed
The college can scarcely have failed
to get wind of the fact that there is
an exciting new project in progress on
the campus: Bryn Mawr is being in-
vestigated! Mrs. Standen and Mr.
Hobson of the staff of Fortune, with
the able assistance of J. Hopkinson,
'35, and P. Little, '35, are rounding
up the students to pose them queries
of a most entertaining nature. Be-
fore the question, "What is your chief
interest?" many an undergraduate has
come to a full and baffled stop, and
many more will doubtless feel a like
embarrassment before the ten days of ] number.
Mrs. Standen's visit are unfortunately
over. We have heard rumors, which
Mrs. Standen firmly denies, that
among the questions are, "Are you a
Pacifist? Are you a Communist? Has
your opinion on these matters chang-
ed since you have come to college?" but
even if this is not the particular in-
formation which she is seeking, all of
her questions are carefully calculated
to give us to pause and think.
Mrs. Standen's present impressions
of the Bryn Mawr girl, which she ad-
mits have been gathered'in a day and
a half, and will doubtless be revised by
the end of the ten days, are that she-
is rather individualistic in the sense
of doing what she likes, and that she
is not opposed to the college authori-
ties. She is singularly free of rah-
rah college spirit, and, contrary to the
popular impression of Bryn Mawr, is
not particularly badly dressed. She
has also the advantage of being almost
completely left to her own devices by
the college.
College Calendar
Thursday, March 21. Chape I.
All students are requested to at-
tend. Goodhart. 8.45 A. M.
Friday, March 22. Square
dancing. Gymnasium. 8.00
P. M.
Saturday, March 23. Basket-
ball game with Rosemont. 10.00
A. M.
French Club Play, La Soeur
Beatrice. Goodhart, 8.20 P. M.
Dance after French Club
Play. Deanery.
Sunday, March 24. Poetry re-
cital by Mrs. Henry P. Van
Dusen. Deanery. 5.00 P. M.
Sunday evening service con-
ducted by Dr. Suter. Music
Room. 7.30 P. M.
Wednesday, March 27. Dance
recital by Miss Petts, Miss Tag-
gart, Miss Converse and the col-
lege dance group. Goodhart.
8.30 P. M.
College Council Votes
For Library Reforms
Suspension Penalty Proposed
For Misusing Reserve Room
Book Privileges
POLITICAL CLUB URGED
Mrs. Standen herself has led a va-
ried and far from monotonous exist-
ence. She has lived all over the Conti-
nent, has studied in Geneva, Berlin,
and at the London School of Econom-
ics, and has worked as a reporter for
an official news agency at Geneva. For
three or four years, she reported the
international, disarmament and rep-
arations conferences, and then because "|
of her extensive knowledge of Italy
gained from having lived there, she
was secured by Fortune last year to
assist in preparing their Italian
In view of Mrs. Standen's apparent
ability to secure work of a most inter-
esting nature, she was immediately
pressed for Advice to the Young in
Quest of a Job. She believes that the
most important tool any young person
can have is an efficient knowledge of
shorthand and typing in several lan-
guages. For her own type of work
this knowledge has been essential, and
with it, plus the asset of a college edu-
cation, everyone is well prepared to
seek a job in newspaper or magazine
work. *
An unusual point of view with re-
spect to gjris'waS-Priced by Mrs.
Standen, when she expressed her belief
that women would profit more from a
college education if they had worked
before they came to college, and were
or 20, so that women could learn to
form a sound opinion rather than
spend their time in accumulating a
large numbeV of facts.
President's House, March 13.�The
College Council has voted to suggest
two innovations to the college: that
the illegal removal of books from the
Reserve Room and the Art Seminary
should be punished in the future by
suspension from college, and that a
Political Union, probably modeled on
the Oxford Union, and aiming to train
women by means of lectures, debates
and discussions to take part in poli-
tics, should be orgapized this spring.
If the misuse of Reserve Room ami
Art Seminary books is not completely
stopped by this new measure, the pos-
sibility of having all books checked
by the librarians as they are removed,
will be brought before the undergrad-
uates for discussion. The Council also
decided that the faculty should be en-
couraged to urge the students to buy
more books, and discussed the ques-
tions of Big May Day, the Greek play,
and smoking in the Deanery. No ac-
tion has yet been taken by the faculty
on the abolition of scheduled quizzes.
The college authorities feel very
strongly that the problem of misusing
books is serious: a student who is
cither so careless or so dishonest that
she inconveniences the rest of the col-
lege by removing books which are in
demand, is not fit. to be a member of
the college community. One student
was discovered to have twenty-seven
books missing from the Reserve Room,
the stacks, and the Hall library in her
room, and another illegally removed a
book which was in great demand from
the Aesthetics reserve. Both students
have been warned that if they offend
in this way again, they will be asked
to leave college, in the first case per-
manently, and in the second tempor-
arily. A chapel announcement will be
made that in future this ruling will
apply to the whole college, and that
it will be invoked for first offenders
without further warning. �4l
If this measure does not prove suf-
ficiently effective, the undergraduate
body will be asked to consider the pos-
sibility of npt allowing the students
to enter the Reserve Room or Art
Seminary, but of having librarians in
both places who will get the books for
the students and make sure that any
one student gets only the books she
has reserved. While it is possible that
this measure might delay the ten
o'clock removal of books for overnight,
a similar procedure is followed in
many other colleges and works with
considerable rapidity, because the li-
brarians are swifter in finding the
books than the students. It would be
highly undesirable to lock up the
stacks in the same way, since freedom
of the stacks is a necessary privilege,
consequently more mature. The enter-
ing age could profitably be raised to 19' \at the Reserve Room and Art Semi-
nary books are more nearly the prop-
erty of the entire college. In any case,
a graduate student has been delegated
Continued on Pag� Six
Isabel S. Stearns, Student of Philosophy,
Will Be Mary E. Garrett European Fellow
I. A. Richards, Fellow and Lecturer in English ait � Cambridge,
Will be Mary Flexner Lecturer For 1935-36 and Speak
On The Philosophy of Style
PICTURE BY MARIAN MacINTOSH, 90, RECEIVED
Goodhart, March 15.�Miss Isabel
Scribner Stearns has been awarded
the Mary E. Garrett European Fel-
lowship, the only graduate European
fellowship to be given for next year,
announced Miss Park in chapel, who
also read the list of resident fellow-
ships for next year apd the "cum
laude" list of undergraduates. Miss
Park also said that Mr. I. A. Rich-
ards, fellow and lecturer of Mag-
delan College, Cambridge, has ac-
cepted the invitation to deliver the
Mary Flexner lectures for the year
1985-6. The College has also been
given a picture Hoots at Gloucester,
by Miss Marian Macintosh, of Prince-
ton, a Bryn Mawr alumna of the
class of 1890, and a well-known
American landscape painter. The
picture was given by Dr. Ethel Dun-
ham, of New Haven, and has been
hung in Pembroke East.
The Mary E. Garrett European
Fellowship was established when the
college was only nine years old tit
enable a graduate student to study
and travel abroad for a year. This
slu'dent lives as a resident at a
strange university under teaching
French Play and Dance
Will Aid Alumnae Drive
(E$pecUllly contributed liu
E. Thompson, '35;
The French Club of Bryn Mawr
College will present on Saturday.
March 23, in Goodhart Hall, its an-
nual play, to be followed by a dance
in the Deanery. The performance
this y'ear will be Maurice Maeter-
ljnck!s Soeur Beutriee, directed by
Mile. Maud Rey. It is an ambitious
play for amateurs to attempt, be-
cause it involves such deep religious
feeling, such delicacy and poignancy
in its emotional conflict. It is the
well-known legend of a nun who for-
sakes her duty to the Virgin. The
scene is laid in a convent of the
fourteenth century throughout all
three acts. The changes of light up-
on the set, the light of the lamp
hanging by the image of the Virgin,
the light that comes at dawn through
the rich stained-glass window and
falls like jewels on the statue, the
moonlight and the snow seen through
the open door, the unearthly light of
the miracle which shines about the
Virgin, all produce variety of effect
and accompany the changing moods
of the play. All the- richness of de-*
tail is contrasted with the simplicity
of the play's skeleton. The detail of
the costumes of the period, the bells,
the chanting of plainsong, the won-
ders of the miracle itself, with its
light, music, and sudden burst of
flowers, all are to be worked out with
care. This play, under the capable
direction of Mile. Rey, should be very
beautiful and moving.
The lighting for thi* presentation
is in charge of Sophie Hemphill, '37,
and Elizabeth Webster, '38. Scen-
ery was designed by Rebecca Davis,
'31, Alice Shurcliff, '38, Mary Hutch-
ings, '37, Anne Reese, '36, and Ann
Fred, '38. E. L. Davis, '37, and
Anne Edwards, '37, are in charge of
the props. The costume designing
was done by P. Mariship, '36, M.
Lewis, '37, E. Bryan, '38, and A. A.
M. Graves, '37, and the stained glass
window by S. Morse, '35. I. Ferrer,
'37, arranged and directed the music,
while Laura Richardson is the organ-
ist. M. Whalen, '38, J. Stern, '36,
and H. Harvey, '37, are directing the
publicity.
The tickets for Soeur Beatrice are
$1.00 and $.75, with a $.25 reduction
to students. For the following dance,
the tickets are $2.25 a couple and
$1.00 stag. All the proceeds of the
play and dance will go for the bene-
fit of tie Fiftieth Anniversary Fund.
and conditions far different from
those she has known before. The
stir of unfamiliarity invariably gives
her work a vividness and new ap-
proach which results in better work
than would be possible if the old
routine were not broken and old
habits were not disestablished. This
fellowship, a magnificent gift to a
good scholar, has been held by many
distinguished members of the facul-
ties at ten of the prominent colleges
in America. Miss Stearns, who re-
ceives it for this year, obtained her
A. B. at Smith College ih 1931, and
her M. A. at Bryn Mawr in 1933.
In 1933-34 she was a graduate schol-
ar at Radcliffe and during the past
year she has been a graduate student
and reader in Philosophy at Bryn
Mawr College. She proposes to
study at Oxford and at Edinburgh
with the great English and Scotch
students of Plato, Aristotle, Kant,
and Hegel. Letters overwhelming in
their commendation were written
from Smith, Harvard, and Bryn
Mawr, including one from Professor
Whitehead who declared that Miss
Stearns was "receptive, critical, and
speculative, and a difficult philosophic
adversary."
Because of the drop in the income
of the fund it is impossible to award
the Fanny Bullock Workman Schol-
arship, a great catastrophe because
three of the candidates recommended
are of unusual promise. But two
European Fellowships have been
awarded to Bryn Mawr graduates
from other sources. Miss Ruth Whit-
redge, ' Fellow in French, has re-
ceived the Fanny Bullock Workman
Scholarship of $1,200 at Wellesley
College which she will use for re-
search in Paris. Miss Mary. Zelia
Pease, Ph.D., Bryn Mawr, 1933, has
been awarded the Alice Freeman
Palmer Fellowship of $1,500 by the
American Association of University
Women, which she will use for study
in Greece of Imitations of Attic and
Corinthian Pottery.
Mr. Richards was selected by the
English Department when it was an-
nounced that Mr. Lowes, who was to
have delivered the Flexner lectures
for this year, was as yet too ill to
make any engagements for next year.
Mr. Richards is a brilliant and prov-
ocative writer and lecturer in the
field of English criticism whose
especial Interest is the" influence-'of
language upon thought. The subject
of -his lectures, to be delivered over
a period of six weeks' residence on
campus in February and March, of
1936, will be Th* I'hdosophy of Style,
in connection with which graduate
and undergraduate courses will be
arranged. In 1931, Mr. Richards was
Continued on Page four
Pirates Report Great Progress
Glee Club officials report that great
progress has been made in getting the
Pirates of Penzance chorus and cast
in shape for actual work on the stage.
Practically the whole first act and a
good deal of the second have been
learned and many of the principals
know their parts very well. The pro-
duction is going so well that it is run-
ning ahead of schedule. The police-
men's chorus has been chosen and con-
sists of Sally Park, Sally Howe, E. C.
Smith, M. M. Smith, Lucy Fairbank,
Betty Reed, Nancy Bucher, Esther
Hardenbergh, Lydia Hemphill, Naney
Lane, and Virginia Hessing.
The set is being designed by Edith
Rose and Olga Muller, both of whom
have done work for Varsity Players'
Club and for Glee Club before. The
actual work of construction is in
charge of Sylvia Evans. Work on the
stage will not start until after vaca-
tion, but many recruits will be needed.
All volunteers please see S. Evans,
Denbigh.